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An explanation for the lack of blood oxygenation detected in many COVID-19 patients

By Jose Lopez Barneo | University of Seville on Dec 30, 2020   Featured, Health, Science/Education  

An explanation for the lack of blood oxygenation detected in many COVID-19 patients

One of the physiopathological characteristics of COVID-19 that has most baffled the scientific and medical community is what is known as “silent hypoxemia” or “happy hypoxia”. Patients suffering this phenomenon, the causes of which are still unknown, have severe pneumonia with markedly decreased arterial blood oxygen levels (known as hypoxemia). However, they do not report […]

Alaska National Guard Rescues Three Individuals During Two Overlapping Missions

By Lt Col Candis Olmstead | MVA on Jul 9, 2020   Featured, Southcentral, State  

Alaska National Guard Rescues Three Individuals During Two Overlapping Missions

  JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska Air National Guard rescued three people on two separate occasions July 7. The first rescue mission involved an aircraft crash 16 miles east of Farewell Lake, and the second was a medevac mission for a woman experiencing life-threatening medical complications in Seward. The first mission was opened […]

Critics Pounce After Trump Tweets Conspiracy Theories About 75-Year-Old Victim of Police Brutality Martin Gugino

By Eoin Higgins | Common Dreams on Jun 9, 2020   Featured, National, National/World  

Critics Pounce After Trump Tweets Conspiracy Theories About 75-Year-Old Victim of Police Brutality Martin Gugino

  President Donald Trump came under fire Tuesday morning after tweeting out a conspiracy theory charging that 75-year-old Martin Gugino, who was assaulted by Buffalo police last week, resulted in his continued hospitalization, was a member of an ill-defined left-wing group and suggested he faked his injuries. “Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an […]

Scientists Discover how the Mosquito Brain Integrates Diverse Sensory Cues to Locate a Host to Bite

By James Urton | University of Washington on Jul 19, 2019   Featured, Science/Education  

Scientists Discover how the Mosquito Brain Integrates Diverse Sensory Cues to Locate a Host to Bite

  For female mosquitoes, finding their next meal is all about smelling and seeing. Through behavioral experiments and real-time recording of the female mosquito brain, a team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of Washington, has discovered how the mosquito brain integrates signals from two of its sensory systems — visual and olfactory […]

Flower or Flesh? Genetics Explain Mosquito Preference

By Misti Crane | OSU on Dec 19, 2017   Featured, Science/Education  

Flower or Flesh? Genetics Explain Mosquito Preference

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Imagine a world in which mosquitoes choose blossoms over blood. Nice, right? There already exists a mosquito species called Wyeomyia smithii in which most of the bugs refuse blood meals in favor of sweet floral nectar. And new research is helping to explain the evolutionary genetics of the switch from blood sucker to flower […]

“Vampires” May have been Real people with this Blood Disorder

By Kat J. McAlpine | BCH on Sep 8, 2017   Featured, Health, Science/Education  

“Vampires” May have been Real people with this Blood Disorder

Porphyrias, a group of eight known blood disorders, affect the body’s molecular machinery for making heme, which is a component of the oxygen-transporting protein, hemoglobin. When heme binds with iron, it gives blood its hallmark red color. The different genetic variations that affect heme production give rise to different clinical presentations of porphyria — including […]

New Life-saving Devices Quickly Identify Health Problems

By Deborah Block | VOA on Mar 16, 2016   Health  

New Life-saving Devices Quickly Identify Health Problems

  WASHINGTON, DC—It can be a matter of life or death — waiting for test results from a laboratory about a serious health problem. But two small medical devices now in development can quickly diagnose some conditions, including the potential for a heart attack. The first, a “tricorder,” was given the same name as the […]

Michigan Governor: Water Caused Elevated Lead Levels in 200 Children

By VOA on Jan 28, 2016   Featured, National  

Michigan Governor: Water Caused Elevated Lead Levels in 200 Children

The governor of the northern state of Michigan says that about 200 children have been identified as having elevated lead levels in their blood from drinking the tap water in the city of Flint and that the number could grow. “There could be many more and we’re assuming that,” two-term Republican Governor Rick Snyder told […]

Rare Lunar Eclipse Seen by Stargazers Worldwide, Alaska Left Out

By Alaska Native News on Sep 28, 2015   Featured, Science/Education  

Rare Lunar Eclipse Seen by Stargazers Worldwide, Alaska Left Out

While most  of the state of Alaska was out of luck and was not able to observe the total eclipse coupled with the Supermoon, Alaskans had the best luck observing a portion of the event if they were in the eastern and southeastern portions of the state. The rare supermoon/eclipse occurred prior to sunset in […]



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